I am just an old gal, with some time on her hands, and loose thoughts from time to time... Wife, mother of 8, grandmother of 20 and great-grandmother of 21

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

A View from the Mind

Pictures in my mind are not on paper.You know when you are talking to someoneand it brings back a memory. And thenyour mind goes to that time, with youreyes open or closed you can picturewhat you saw then.

Do you know what a "Thank You Ma'am is?As the words roll off my mind, I picture theY.M.C. A. in Newport, Rhode Island. It wasused for the Navy. And coming from one sidestreet toward the other, crossing the main streetof Broadway, pass the Y.M.C.A and down aroundthe corner. And the words were said was .."Thank you, Ma'am."Do you know why?

When President Eisenhower's name is mention,my mind goes to a day in the 1957 when he cameto the War College and Newport, R.I. Naval Base.We had protested our supervisor when he said wecould not take our lunch time, when the Presidentarrived. Before the time of protesting was common,we all in unison walked out and stood on the sideof the road that was thru the Naval Base we work on,and waited. The first view, was the big black car, withsmall USA flags flying on each corner of the front of thecar. My mind still sees the grille with the flags flying.

Miami Beach brings the look of standing on white sand.Ours in R.I. was grey. And looking out to see blue water.Ours was, well, it wasn't blue like this. It was more green/brown.And then standing in the water up to my waist and lookingdown and seeing my white feet. It was winter. I had leftR.I. to go take care of my grandfather. I left -08 and arrivedin 65 degrees. Which they called cold.

It is a wonderful thing, the brain, that can bring a view to yourmind, with a mere mention of a time. Or bring smells to yournose, of a particular day.

3 comments:

sorry I aint been around or done emails but Im up to me ears in paperwork, Im redoing all me hundreds of policys and contracts as I have me Offie Inspection in less then a fortnight, part of me wants to fail cos it would force me to look in different directions but if I fail I do under to LOL....

I need to get the next week or so under me belt and also get this new baby WHICH I DONT WANT into some sorta routine.....

Yes, Dogwalking Musing, you are correct. The story I got was that is what the driver for the rich said, when he hit the dip, and would hit his head on the top of the cab of the vehicle..be it horse drawn or gas. As the dip were in Newport, R.I. that long. And as far as I know, there are still there.Was said the dips were there so there would be no racing thru the intersections.